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The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene
2.0
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What in fresh heck did I just read? After reading the hot mess of the Original Text. I thought for sure the Revised Text would be better. I can't say that it is.
Nancy's father sends her to Maryland, where she is to open up his client's cottage for a renter due to arrive soon. She takes Bess and George along and get involved in no less than three mysteries. Since this is a Nancy Drew story, all three mysteries wind up being inter-related in the end.
There's the kidnapping of twins, the abduction of a red-headed woman, an attempted kidnapping of Nancy and an up-and-coming Rock Star, a phantom riverboat, music piracy, the rock star and his red-headed fiance' are knocked out when someone hurls a huge rock at them, the fiance' and Nancy are almost killed when a huge log is rolled off a cliff towards them, Nancy's canoe is sabotaged, it never ends.
And when they are not exploring the area, the ladies are preparing feasts. Food is always a thing in Nancy Drew books for some reason, as if fat-shaming "plump" or "chubby" Bess weren't enough, there's always an emphasis if she has an extra scoop of ice cream. George is always described as athletic and tomboyish, but despite being told that at least three times in this story, she's also a frequent clutz in the stories; in this one she falls down and bangs her head pretty badly.
There's also a treasure to be found for the fiance', who conveniently, is an orphan (Nancy sure does meet a lot of orphans who are down on their luck, especially in the OTs, but in the RTs as well) It involves a locket, an iron bird, and some place called Pudding Stone Lodge on Misty Lake, which is near Baltimore. Of course, Nancy and the gang (and I say gang because one call to Ned, Burt, and Dave, who apparently don't have anything to do, drive down to Maryland to go to a rock concert and help Nancy with her mysteries) find the treasure by tearing through a wall of Pudding Stone Lodge.
The kidnapped twins are reunited with their mother, who is a lookalike and turns out a cousin of the rock star's fiance'. Her tale of losing her kids and subsequent search for them is absolutely unbelievably contrived.
I'm at a loss to decide which story is "better", the original or this, the RT. It's a toss up. They were both exceptionally bad.
What in fresh heck did I just read? After reading the hot mess of the Original Text. I thought for sure the Revised Text would be better. I can't say that it is.
Nancy's father sends her to Maryland, where she is to open up his client's cottage for a renter due to arrive soon. She takes Bess and George along and get involved in no less than three mysteries. Since this is a Nancy Drew story, all three mysteries wind up being inter-related in the end.
There's the kidnapping of twins, the abduction of a red-headed woman, an attempted kidnapping of Nancy and an up-and-coming Rock Star, a phantom riverboat, music piracy, the rock star and his red-headed fiance' are knocked out when someone hurls a huge rock at them, the fiance' and Nancy are almost killed when a huge log is rolled off a cliff towards them, Nancy's canoe is sabotaged, it never ends.
And when they are not exploring the area, the ladies are preparing feasts. Food is always a thing in Nancy Drew books for some reason, as if fat-shaming "plump" or "chubby" Bess weren't enough, there's always an emphasis if she has an extra scoop of ice cream. George is always described as athletic and tomboyish, but despite being told that at least three times in this story, she's also a frequent clutz in the stories; in this one she falls down and bangs her head pretty badly.
There's also a treasure to be found for the fiance', who conveniently, is an orphan (Nancy sure does meet a lot of orphans who are down on their luck, especially in the OTs, but in the RTs as well) It involves a locket, an iron bird, and some place called Pudding Stone Lodge on Misty Lake, which is near Baltimore. Of course, Nancy and the gang (and I say gang because one call to Ned, Burt, and Dave, who apparently don't have anything to do, drive down to Maryland to go to a rock concert and help Nancy with her mysteries) find the treasure by tearing through a wall of Pudding Stone Lodge.
The kidnapped twins are reunited with their mother, who is a lookalike and turns out a cousin of the rock star's fiance'. Her tale of losing her kids and subsequent search for them is absolutely unbelievably contrived.
I'm at a loss to decide which story is "better", the original or this, the RT. It's a toss up. They were both exceptionally bad.